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Tech incubators bringing different models of online learning to Pakistan
By Shoaib Pervaiz
LAHORE: The dissemination of information and education is perhaps the most important door of possibilities that modern technology has opened, and turned into reality.
Startups in Pakistan and other countries are increasingly focusing on using modern technology to come up with solutions to people's day-to-day needs. Healthcare, transportation and logistics, education, connectivity, and employment are some of the needs that these startups are trying to fulfill.
With a rise in technology-based startups, the country has also seen a rise in tech incubators which provide mentorship, funding, accommodation and accelerate startups with big potential. Plan 9, The Nest I/O, Plan X, National Incubation Centres, i2i, and Microsoft Innovation Centre are some of the most sought after startup incubators in the country.
The National Incubation Centre has perhaps gained the most momentum since it is a collaboration between the Ministry of Information and Technology, Jazz, the Ignite Fund, and Teamup. It has opened centres in Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar, and most recently in Quetta after partnering with different universities in each city.
One startup that is making its mark in the online learning space is EdTech Worx.
Founded in December 2017 by Dr Farrah Arif, a Commonwealth scholar with a PhD from the University of Cambridge, EdTech Worx is an education technology company which was incubated at the National Incubation Centre (NIC) in Lahore. It develops online digital interactive data-driven products for informed decision making.
The company, since its inception, bases its methodology on 'learning outside walls'.
The founder is also a leading corporate trainer in Pakistan, and teaches at the Lahore University of Management and Sciences (LUMS). With a distinguished career as a strategic thinker and marketing consultant, Farrah has helped many organizations optimize their business and marketing strategy to drive sustainable revenue growth and profits.
Her clientele includes large corporations such as Telenor, Jazz, Packages, EasyPaisa, Engro Foods and Bulleh Shah Packages. Her areas of speciality are Design Thinking, Digital Transformation and Consumer Data Analytics. She sits on boards of various incubation centres such as the NIC in Pakistan as advisor and mentor.
Dr Farrah Arif
In an interview with Profit, Dr Farrah explained her motivation for starting EdTech Worx and said, "This is the first educational technology company in Pakistan. It includes both blended learning courses and experiential learning courses. A certain percentage of the course is conducted online, while some of it is conducted in a classroom setting".
For those who seek online education, or have had experience with foreign universities or taken part in distant-online programmes, EdTech Worx might just come across as Pakistan's version of Coursera or Udemy – both of which offer online courses affiliated with leading universities around the world.
Dr Farrah, however, disagrees on this, and says, "This might be like Coursera, but in reality, it's much more than that. The difference between Coursera and our company is the fact that Coursera only offers online learning through audio/visual content. EdTech Worx offers case study based courses which require students to learn online, and then sit in classrooms or 'hubs' with other students, and get an opportunity to interact with industry leaders from the corporate sector who judge their projects".
EdTech Workx offers hypermedia case studies. These case studies are sourced and curated from multiple digital platforms", she added.
The company is inspired by real-life experiences where business simulations and a Digital Interactive Platform (DIP) facilitate both educators and corporate trainers to create a state-of-the-art online learning environment – where participants can practice and hone their decision-making, problem-solving and strategy formulation skills.
"I have been disseminating high-quality education to top universities of Pakistan and abroad for twenty years but it was only last year that I decided to bring digital transformation to my classroom. The idea was to create an engaging and interactive digital learning space where teachers can teach via case-study based pedagogy and students can learn through a blend of instructor-led sessions, online simulations and peer-to-peer discussions. This then led to the birth of EdTech Worx."
Currently, the company's 'Marketing Essentials' and 'Design Thinking' courses are accepting registrations. These courses will enable candidates to learn and practically demonstrate essential marketing and design thinking skills in 6 and 5 week blended learning courses, along with mentorship and guest speaker sessions from corporate sector leaders and influencers.
Pakistan's educational landscape is perhaps devoid of quality digital courses which students can take part in, and be affiliated with top universities. When universities such as Harvard, Yale, or Columbia are offering online courses to students worldwide; being affiliated with LUMS, and tech incubators such as the NIC, EdTech Worx has the potential to change the dynamics of education in the country.
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Christine Milne: Intergenerational Report ignores global warming - it must be rewritten
Christine Milne 5 Mar 2015
The Australian Greens Leader, Senator Christine Milne, addresses the Senate about the Abbott Government's decision to ignore global warming in their Intergnerational Report. She argues that you can't have true intergenerational reporting without examining global warming and pollution from fossil fuels.
Senator MILNE: I move:
That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Cormann) to a question without notice asked by Senator Milne today relating to the 2015 Intergenerational Report.
I have to say that I am absolutely disgusted by the Intergenerational report that the government has put out today. Senator Cormann made it very clear that he does not care. He simply does not care that they have put out a document which is based on no modelling whatsoever. It is just a Liberal Party pamphlet, and I will go into the detail of that.
I asked Senator Cormann to explain why the 2010 Intergenerational report said that climate change represented one of the most significant challenges to economic sustainability. I asked him what had happened in the last five years such that now it has no reference to economic sustainability. What did he do? He refused to answer the question. He went nowhere near that question. The next question I asked him was: given the bulk of the text on the Emissions Reduction Fund, why wasn't there any modelling of this policy's growing drag on the budget? We are going to be paying the big polluters out of the taxpayers' pockets but there not a single dollar's modelling in there. He ignored that question as well. The last question went to the issue of what are the modelled costs of the impact of global warming on public health, emergency services, agricultural profitability, infrastructure, housing, insurance and defence? Why haven't we got the costings of global warming on all of those-given we have just had cyclones in Queensland smashing the infrastructure left, right and centre? In Western Australia, since 1 January this year, there have been 1,000 fires. Since 1 January this year, in eight or nine weeks, 1,000 fires have been reported in Western Australia and the latest report from the Climate Council has said that south-west Western Australia is drying out. It is becoming much more fire prone. It is getting to the point where it will be difficult for people to continue to live there, and that is because they will not be able to insure their property. This has serious impacts for water availability, infrastructure, human health-all of these things-and yet the government is pretending that global warming will have no impact out to 2055. The extraordinary thing is: this report devotes more time to the debt in Ireland than it does to global warming in Australia. What does that tell you about the junk that this report actually is?
We have got a Treasurer and a Prime Minister who have decided to use taxpayers' money to bring out an Intergenerational report which simply reframes their Liberal Party ideological agenda and they are going to insult the public even more by using taxpayers' dollars to run an advertising campaign to try to reboot the government. That is what this is about and it is junk. That is why this has to be rewritten. It needs to be rewritten because it has insulted every serious economist and every scientist in the country. Alan Pears, a highly regarded scientist, has come out and said that, if this were written 20 years ago, it might be reasonable. That is the kind of dump that is happening on this report from everyone who has a serious policy or evidence based background.
The amazing thing for me is that people keep saying, 'Oh, the Liberal Party manage the economy.' Really? The Liberal Party are not taking into account the two overwhelming threats identified by the World Economic Forum: global warming, the greatest challenge facing the planet, and wealth inequality. Those two things are coming at us left, right and centre and they are destabilising communities. Here in Australia we have a government which completely ignores global warming and wants to drive wealth inequality by attacking the poorest in our community, trying to get them to pay much more for health and education while letting the big end of town off the hook. We had another example of it this week when the government moved with Labor's support-to their shame, I must say-to give the mining industry another $100 million worth of exemptions and subsidies for exploration and to give the big end of town the benefit of the doubt: 'Oh, they simply were inadvertently making false claims on their tax.' It is disgraceful.
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The Victorian State Government has approved a $750 million two-tower development on Queen Street in Melbourne's CBD.
The two 79-storey towers at 350 Queen Street will include almost 1,600 apartments, 8,000 square metres of office and retail space, 554 car spaces, 603 bike spaces, a new childcare centre, a gym and a supermarket.
The development includes a mix of one, two, three and four-bedroom apartments, reflecting the growing demand for larger inner-city places to accommodate families.
The approval includes a condition for both buildings to be set back at least 4.5 metres from the street.
Minister for Planning Richard Wynne said the development was well-designed and would provide apartments as well as new services to support the CBD's growing population.
"Population growth around inner Melbourne means another 45,000 homes will be needed by 2031 to accommodate 80,000 people," he said.
The towers are being developed by Chinese developer 3L Alliance.


Since I downsized from the house my children grew up in, I have let go of lots of possessions. There is simply no room for them in my new home, which is small verging on tiny.
My photos today are of several things that have pride of place in my home and are, in my opinion, truly beautiful. They make me happy whenever I look at them and each one has its story.
There is a pot by the local artist Molly Abbott, that is definitely not practical but is so beautiful and vibrant in colour and form.
Next there is a beautiful piece by Daffyd Rouse. It was given to me some years ago by my daughter in law. She is a nurse now and was working for Headway at the time. Headway is a charity that supports people with traumatic and acquired brain injuries. One of her clients was Daffyd, a very creative and talented man. Sadly, Daffyd had a motorbike accident in 2005, which took away his independence and left him with serious head injuries unable to pursue his love for art, prose and pottery. He generously decided to sell his vast collection of work to raise money for charity which is how I became the proud owner of this pot. Sadly Daffyd died aged just 65 in June 2014, but the beauty of his artwork will ensure that his story will never be forgotten.
And, last but not least, is the gift I received today for Mothering Sunday.
This could be a melancholy time if three of your children live abroad as mine do. However, I feel very lucky that in my case it often means that I get three mother's days ~ the Spanish one and the American one as well as the UK one.
I don't know how she does it, but my eldest daughter always manages to send a gift from the USA that arrives bang on time. So today I was very excited when the postman knocked! Once I had opened the parcel I was thrilled to find an exquisite piece of ceramic art created by Claire Prenton.
Claire used to live in the Cotswolds, which is where she and my daughter became friends, when they worked together. Co-incidentally they both emigrated to the USA, Lisa to California via Vermont and Claire to Cincinnati via Seattle! They both share a deep love and respect for nature and animals ~ although they do differ in that Claire adores her cats, while Lisa can't live without a dog.
Claire makes the most exquisite and delicate porcelain pieces, which she embellishes with features from the natural world. Insects, birds, flowers, leaves and twigs, corals, pearls and shells feature in the ornamentation. You can see them here in her gallery. Last year Lisa sent me a beautifully decorated cup and this year she sent a plate from the same collection. Claire tells me that her exquisite cup is tough enough for me to have my daily coffee in! But, of course I love it so much that I will never use it in case I damage it. I would rather just look at it and appreciate its beauty.
Truly I feel blessed to be surrounded by such beauty and such love.


If you really want to know what All Nations is like, you should visit one of our LIFE GROUPS.
These are small groups that usually meet in homes weekly or fortnightly, but could be in a cafe or restaurant or out somewhere else! Life Groups are the main expression of our church family.
Life Groups are a way for you to find a place where you belong, grow, get to know others and do life together. We are passionate about people encountering Jesus and reaching out to our local communities.


Castaways of the Flying Dutchman is the first in a series of three novels surrounding the adventures of Ben and Ned.
It is made up of three "books," detailing the origins of Ben and Ned and their adventures in Chapelvale.
After bargaining with a Chinese gem dealer, Captain Phillip Vanderdecken agrees to carry several items from Valparaiso aboard his ship, the Flying Dutchman.
A mute teenage boy runs from his father and stepbrothers. When he arrives at the edge of a waterway, the boy has nowhere to run, and is captured by his brothers. One of them accidentally pushes him into the water and it appears as if he could drown, but with the small amount of strength he has left, the boy climbs aboard the Flying Dutchman.
On the ship he is forced to become a galley slave for the Petros the cook, who calls him by the name Nebuchadnezzar or Neb for short. While at the port of Esbjerg, Denmark, Neb finds a dog, to whom he shows kindness. The dog stays with him and becomes his companion; Neb names the dog Denmark, after the port of call.
At sea, three deckhands, Scraggs, Jamil and Sindh, start to plot a mutiny. Neb knows of this, but is powerless to do anything about it due to his inability to speak. One night, as they go to kill the captain, Neb and Denmark leap at them. With the captain's help, they manage to stop the mutineers.
As the voyage continues, the Flying Dutchman begins running short of food. Far from any port, they seem powerless to stop their fate of slow starvation. The weather worsens, and the crew becomes unable to go backward or forward.
As the last of the food supply gives out, the weather suddenly calms, as if a joke was being played on the starving sailors. Captain Vanderdecken begins hurling curses toward the Lord. Suddenly, an Angel appears and condemns the Flying Dutchman to forever sail the seas, with none of the crew, even the drowned and hung, to be spared.
Neb and Denmark (shortened to Den), due to their purity of heart, are freed to wander the world, doing good and never growing older. To help in their quest, they are given the ability to communicate telepathically, and Neb is given the ability to speak in any language.
Neb and Den spend time with Luis the Shepherd on Tierra Del Fuego, where the pair washed up after the storm. While there, Neb learns to speak Spanish, and Den learns to communicate telepathically better.
After three years pass, a vicious storm hits Tierra Del Fuego. As Luis chases after his sheep, he falls off a high cliff. Neb carries Luis back to their hut, but Luis eventually dies from the injuries. The Angel appears again and tells Neb and Den that they must leave at the sound of a bell. A ram's bell brings the Angel's message, and the two friends head away.
273 years later, Neb and Den have reversed their names, now going by Ben and Ned. Together, they have wandered the world, doing good deeds. They come to an English town called Chapelvale in 1896 by rail.
Once there, they go out into the country, trying to find a barn in which to spend the night. They meet Winifred Winn, and Ned scares a local gang of bullies from attacking her. She offers to shelter the two, and they accept.
While on a trip to the town, Ben visits the Evans Tea Shoppe and meets Alex and Amelia Somers. As he travels through the town, Winnie tells him that the town is scheduled to be torn down in slightly more than a week to make room for a cement factory. Although her ancestor was legally granted the village, the deeds of ownership were lost. Ben and Ned realize that this is the reason the Angel sent them to the village.
When the pair arrive back at the house, they search for clues in the rooms. In the room of Winnie's dead husband, they find an old family Bible. In the binding of the book is a piece of paper, with the cryptic words "re keep safe for the house of Winn thy treasure" and two holes. Ben puts it in his pocket, although he does not understand the meaning.
When Ben travels back into the town, he meets Alex and Amelia again. They warn him not to go past a church where a mad professor lives, and Ben decides to take look anyway. He knocks on the door, but is frightened by the sound of a double-barreled shotgun being cocked.
Ben sneaks around the side of the church, where he becomes aware of the fact that the sound is not a shotgun being cocked, but instead a toy frog being clicked. He befriends the professor, Jonathan Preston, by helping him remember the rest of a sailing song. Preston shows Ben apiece of paper similar to Ben's, which started the search for the hidden deeds.
When the deeds are found it is revealed that the Winn family owns, not only Chapelvale, but much of the area surrounding it.
Later, Winnie's son Jim decides to move back to Chapelvale with his family.


Sen. Mike Lee has a plan to defund key parts of ObamaCare.: Sadly, D.C. infected GOPers like the congressman in this story don't have the stones to put up a fight!
Talking Points Memo reports Rep.: Robert Pittenger (R-NC) received an earful Monday at a town hall after he said that he will not be backing efforts to defund Obamacare and risk a government shutdown.
The exchange was captured and posted by the tea party website ConstitutionalWar.org. A man off camera can be heard asking Pittenger about the defunding effort spearheaded by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT).
"Do you want the thoughtful answer?" Pittenger asked.
"I want yes or no," the man said.
Pittenger then said "no," a clip that the tea party website re-played in slow-motion.
The lawmaker then had a back-and-forth with the man and a woman, who was also off camera.
"Do you think Harry Reid is going to pass that in the Senate?" Pittenger asked.
"It doesn't matter," the man fired back.
"We need to show the American people we stand for conservative values," the woman shouted, drawing a smattering of applause.
I've been commenting on Facebook for the past week that this schism inside the GOP over Obamacare funding may be the impetus conservatives needs to leave the GOP in droves and start a Third Party. It has become obvious the Republican Party wants to be a Democrat-lite Party and conservatives will never ever abide with that.


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'I'm speechless, heartbroken': Father talks about 22-year-old son killed in California shooting
Posted 7:01 pm, November 8, 2018, by Tribune Media Wire
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Jason Coffman waited anxiously, standing outside a building where victims of the Thousand Oaks mass shooting were being reunited with family.
It had been several hours since shots broke out at the Borderline Bar & Grill late Wednesday night. Fifty to 60 families gathered at the Thousand Oaks Teen Center in search of missing loved ones.
Jason remembers saying goodbye to his son, Cody, who went to the bar every Wednesday for its "College Country Night." After hearing of the shooting, he pinged his son's phone and called him repeatedly.
But the phone kept ringing.
Jason Coffman tearfully speaks with reporters in Thousand Oaks after learning of the death of his son, Cody, on Nov. 7, 2018. (Credit: KTLA)
On Thursday morning, he shared a tearful phone call with authorities who told him his son had been shot.
A short time later, just before 10 a.m., he received the news he said would forever change his life.
"The companionship that I had with my son, the companionship that my son had with his brothers," Jason said, breaking into tears as he embraced his father-in-law and kept his arm wrapped around him.
"This is not going to be easy for our family for a very long time," he said.
Jason said he and his son would go fishing together and he coached Cody in baseball until high school. Conejo Valley Little League mourned the 22-year-old's death in a heartfelt tribute on Twitter.
Hug your players close tonight, as Camarillo Pony Baseball mourns the loss of former player, current umpire and dad, Cody Coffman. We at CVLL extend our sincerest condolences to the league and the family of this fine man. pic.twitter.com/2gN8NTg1tC
— Conejo Valley LL (@ConejoValleyLL) November 8, 2018
Cody had dreams of joining the military and was speaking with recruiters before he was killed, according to his father.
"My son was on his way to fulfill his dream of serving the country," Jason said.
The Ventura County native leaves behind four siblings, including a sister on the way, stepbrother and 8- and 6-year-old brothers he often bonded with, his father said.
"He wanted to be the big brother to these two boys and sister who's coming," Jason said.
As he spoke to reporters about his son's death, Jason expressed his distress at the pain that would be felt by other families in the coming hours.
Jason Coffman holds up his phone, showing a photo his 22-year-old son Cody, who died after a gunman opened fire on a bar in Thousand Oaks and killed 12 people on Nov. 7, 2018. (Credit: Kent Nishimura/ Los Angeles Times)
"I don't know what to say to the other people that are going to be going through the situation I am," he said. "I'm speechless, heartbroken."
Reflecting on how he would get through his own pain, Jason held on tightly to his father-in-law, Mike Johnston, saying "I love this man." He plans to seek the help of his pastor and church but wonders how he will get through.
"I don't know how, I don't know how," he said, before breaking into tears as he held onto his father-in-law.
"We have a faith in our God, in our Christ," Johnston said.
"Life is fragile," Johnston said, his voice choking. "It's precious, it's sacred. We should cherish it."
Before finding out about his son's death, Jason said he was trying to prepare for the worst.
"If the Lord took him away, we know that he's in a better place," he said.
As he first spoke with reporters after getting the news, Jason recalled the last words he spoke to his son.
"First thing I said was 'Please don't drink and drive.' Last thing I said was 'Son, I love you.'"
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Last Word is an obituary BBC radio series broadcast weekly on Radio 4. Each week the lives of several famous people who have recently died are summarised with narration, and interviews with people who knew them. The programme is normally presented by
Matthew Bannister, although on odd occasions it has been presented by other people such as Kate Silverton or Julian Worricker.

The programme was first broadcast on 10 February 2006, with a biography of American songwriter Paul Vance (1929–2022) being broadcast on the edition of 29 September 2006, a rare example of somebody still living being featured as a Last Word subject, with Vance also being interview by the programme, after his death was announced in the media by mistake.

References

BBC Last Word website page

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Wege Sinyangwe is the missionary pastor of Chimasulo Baptist Church in Chilanga District just south of Lusaka, Zambia. His latest update has encouraging news about chidren's ministry, but also tells of the tragic deaths of two men who attended their Bible studies. During my first week in Zambia, I witnessed a similar tragedy in the same area. Crossing that very busy highway at night is extremely dangerous.
"In terms of church ministries, when it comes to having bigger events such as concerted evangelism, we join hands with our mother church and do the work as one. Every year our mother church has on its calendar an activity for children called Holiday Bible Week (HBW). The activity is designed to reach out to children in the community of Chilanga District with the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ while they are on their April school holidays. We teach the Gospel to them, provide food, and have games during the three days we are with them. This year it was held the last week of April, and the theme was "The Good News". We had three main pickup points for children from Chimasulo (our church's area) – Freedom and Linda compounds, and Lilayi (Jambo Farm). We had a daily average of twenty children from each pick up point. On the last day of the meeting we had about 250 children from all over Chilanga District! Though the fruit regarding HBW may not be seen today, the seed does get planted in the children, as I have noticed from some of the children (including my own) and the parents I have interacted with.
As we were excited with what God was doing among the children after Holiday Bible Week, we received shocking news around midnight on 29 April. The tragic message was that one of the women who was actively assisting in preparing food for children during the HBW had just lost her husband. He and his friend were trying to cross Kafue Road in Freedom compound when they were bashed by a van and both died on the spot. They were both active at the Lilayi Bible Study group at Jambo Farm and had been to our church many times. Sadly, at the time of their death, to the best of my knowledge, they had not come to the saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Please pray for their surviving families.


Barracuda Networks (CUDA) reports earnings Monday April 17th after the bell.
Netflix (NFLX) and United Airlines (UAL) will also be reporting earnings after the bell Monday April 17th.
Most of the news coverage will be on whether Netflix and United Airlines will "beat" earnings.
But out of these 3 stocks, we think Barracuda Networks could offer the most upside.
In the past 13 quarters since its IPO, Barracuda Networks has as 12 "beats" and 1 "miss" for earnings.
The average EPS beat for CUDA's earnings is 66.8%.
Barracuda Network's stock goes up 9.8% on average after reporting earnings.
In comparison, Netflix goes down 5% on average after earnings and United Airlines goes down 3.4% on average after earnings.
We do however think that this quarter all 3 companies will beat earnings.
We think CUDA has the best upside. We are long NFLX January 2018 calls. We think that Netflix could be bought out sometime this year.
When someone from United Airlines ask you to leave the plane, don't argue – just jump!


DETROIT: President-elect Donald Trump - and his prolific Twitter finger - is the talk of this year's North American International Auto Show. Throughout his presidential campaign, and after the election, Trump criticized automakers for moving US production to Mexico, often through tweets.
He has threatened a 35-percent tariff on Mexican-made vehicles that are exported to the US Such a tariff could wreak havoc on the industry, since every major automaker produces vehicles in Mexico.
FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne said his company will adjust if the rules change. Marchionne said it's possible FCA would have to withdraw from Mexico if tariffs were too punitive. And FCA has delayed plans to find a partner to build small cars until it learns whether tariffs will be put in place.
"I think we all need clarity," he said. But Marchionne also said FCA feels strongly about keeping SUV and truck production in the US, which helped bail out the company during the recession. "We owe a lot to this country," he said. The company on Sunday announced a $1 billion investment in two US factories, and the creation of 2,000 new jobs. Trump congratulated the company on Twitter.
Herbert Deiss, a member of Volkswagen's management board, said Volkswagen won't change its production plans in response to Trump. "Mexico is one of our biggest markets," he said.
But he also emphasized that Volkswagen has made significant investments in the US that should help allay Trump's concerns, including the opening of a plant in Tennessee in 2011. "We do a lot of investment here, even vehicle development, so I think we will be fine," he said.
Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford said he has talked to Trump multiple times about trade and tax policy and currency manipulation. "I found him to be very informed and respectful of our positions."
But Bill Ford bristled when asked if Trump is affecting Ford's production plans. In addition to canceling plans to build a plant in Mexico, Ford recently decided not to move production of the Lincoln MKC SUV from Kentucky to Mexico. "We made that decision and we'll always make the right business decisions for Ford," he said.
North American CEO Jim Lentz says Trump's threatened border tax could force automakers to raise prices, pushing down sales and eventually causing production cuts and factory layoffs - the opposite of what Trump wants. Using the midsize Camry, America's top-selling car, as an example, Lentz says 25 percent of the Kentucky-made car's content comes from outside the US A 35 percent border tax would add $1,000 to the Camry's price, he said.
"My concern for the industry is cost goes up, likely the size of the industry goes down. The industry doesn't have to produce as many vehicles and it affects employment negatively," he said. Lentz doesn't object to Trump's comments because he also wants a stronger economy and more good-paying jobs here.
GM CEO Mary Barra said the company has no plans to shift production in response to Trump. She said the company decides two to four years ahead of time where it makes vehicles. But she thinks GM and Trump have some common ground. "I very much look forward to being part of the solution that allows the country to be strengthened along with business, along with our manufacturing capability," she said. Barra is part of a group of CEOs that will advise Trump on economic issues.
Scott Keogh, president of Audi of America, said he hasn't talked with Trump or his associates. Keogh said Audi's decision to build a plant in Mexico - which opened in September - was made five years ago and the plant builds vehicles that are exported globally, not just to the US.
Honda Motor Co. CEO Takahiro Hachigo told reporters through an interpreter that the automaker wants "to continue as we have done to work on development and production of US products." He said he can't comment on threatened tariffs and said it's "too early" to discuss other policy proposals.


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Judge sides with plaintiffs in Lebanon County EIT lawsuit
Les Stewart
Lebanon County Judge Bradford H. Charles has ruled in favor of 12 plaintiffs who contended in a lawsuit that they were underpaid earned income tax revenues between 2004 and 2007 that were collected and distributed by the now defunct Lebanon County Earned Income Tax Bureau, (EIT).
In a 75-page ruling issued Wednesday afternoon, Charles wrote that "the so-called 'EIT scandal' has produced no winners, and the biggest 'losers' have been and will continue to be the hardworking taxpayers of Lebanon County."
The judge issued his ruling after hearing four days of testimony in a non-jury trial late last month.
Charles laid out what the five defendants in the suit must pay to the plaintiffs in their claims that included unjust enrichment and violation of the Local Tax Enabling Act.
The defendants and the amounts they must pay are: Cornwall borough, $1,532,182.20; North Annville Township, $399,350.21; Heidelberg Township, $1,111,904.70; West Cornwall Township, $187,903.23; and Bethel Township, $102,328.68.
The amounts include 6 percent interest since 2007.
The plaintiffs in the suit, filed June 20, 2012, are the city of Lebanon, Jonestown borough, North Cornwall, North Lebanon, North Londonderry, South Lebanon, South Londonderry, Swatara, Union and West Lebanon townships, and Northern Lebanon and Palmyra school districts.
"In school, children are taught that if they find a lost wallet, it should be returned to the rightful owner. Stripped to its essence, this case presents an identical lesson," Charles said in the conclusion of his decision. "Here, the defendants found themselves in possession of several million dollars in money that rightfully belonged to someone else. There is no principle of equity that would support the defendants' retention of someone else's tax dollars. Like the child who should return the wallet, the defendants must return the funds that rightfully belong to (the) plaintiffs," the judge wrote in his decision.
EIT was created in 1967 by an agreement entered into by six Lebanon County school districts and 26 municipalities.
In 1987, EIT hired Donald Foltz as its executive director. He embezzled more than $800,000 of tax revenues for his own use between 2002 and 2006, Charles stated in his ruling. Foltz was fired on March 14, 2007, after the embezzlement was discovered. He committed suicide five days later.
In 2008, all of the county's school districts and municipalities agreed to hire McKonly and Asbury of Camp Hill to conduct an analysis of EIT's tax distribution decisions between 2004 and 2007.
After the Camp Hill firm's report was issued in 2009, North Lebanon Township manager Cheri Grumbine developed a plan, which became known as the Grumbine plan, to resolve the overpayment and underpayment problem.
The Grumbine plan proposed that four school districts and 14 municipalities that were overpaid $5.7 million in earned income tax revenue between 2004 and 2007 by the EIT Bureau make payments to the two school districts and 11 municipalities that were underpaid.
The Grumbine Plan gave the overpaids 10 years to make interest-free payments. Three municipalities were given longer terms to make payments because of the amounts they owe. Mount Gretna was given 20 years to pay $219,053, Cornwall was given 14 years to pay $1,056,677, and Heidelberg was given 13 years to pay $766,830.
Between 2009 and 2012, a number of municipalities and school districts agreed to follow the plan. The defendants in the lawsuit did not.
Also in 2008, the EIT board voted to outsource earned income tax collection to a private firm, Keystone Collections Group of Irwin, Westmoreland County.
"After months of trying to sort out what one lawyer characterized as a 'true mess,' the citizens of Lebanon County learned that the monies distributed by the Bureau between 2004 and 2007 may not have been distributed in a manner that matched the intent of the tax ordinances passed by each school district and municipality," Charles said in his decision.
In explaining his ruling, the judge wrote that he realizes his decision will cost taxpayers money.
"We wish there was some magic fund or method by which all taxpayers in Lebanon County could be made whole. Unfortunately, there is not. Even with their 'victory,' the taxpayers of (the) plaintiffs will still be required to expend counsel fees and costs of litigation which likely will be measured in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. In addition to repaying the overpayment amounts plus interest, the defendants' taxpayers will also have to absorb litigation-related fees and costs. Moreover, because the bureau has already voluntarily paid significant amounts related to Foltz' fraud and mismanagement, and because we will be requiring that the bureau pay additional pre-litigation fees and expenses, all taxpayers of Lebanon County have or will indirectly be responsible for paying the bureau's obligations relating to the misallocation of funds between 2004 and 2007," the judge wrote.
Charles wrote that he hoped his decision will end the EIT-related litigation, adding in a foot note that he is unaware of any other pending lawsuits related to EIT or Foltz.
"Even more, our hope is that this Court will never again be faced with a scenario such as this one. Our expectation is that no one will ever again place a man such as Foltz in a position of authority without adequate oversight. As painful as the lesson taught by this litigation has been for so many, we take solace in the belief that, moving forward, nothing like the 'EIT Scandal' will ever be permitted to occur again," the judge concluded.
The judge also ruled that the five defendants in the suit can recover pre-litigation fees and expenses. A list of those fees and expenses is to be submitted within 10 days of Charles' ruling. The judge said if a dispute arises over those costs, a hearing can be held to resolve the matter.
In addition, the judge ruled that all fees charged by forensic accountant Dennis Houser of Financial Forensic Consultants are to be shared equally between all parties in the suit. Houser was appointed by the court to conduct an independent analysis.
Scott Wyland, attorney for the defendant municipalities, and Justin Weber. attorney for plaintiffs, did not return telephone calls seeking comment.


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•Archives
All Students -
On Feb. 18,1991 the
Science Club is sponsoring guest
speaker/Dr. Chris Wozencraft,
from the Smithsonian Institute.
Dr. Wozencraft will speak on
conservation in third world
The lecture and reception
is free and open to the entire
campus and will be in Room
100, Diggs Hall. The lecture will
be from 3 to 4 p.m. and a wine
and cheese reception will follow
from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
The A.T.M
If you did not hear
about it, there was a survey
going around Thomas Nelson
Community College about
getting an A.T.M. (Automated
Teller Machine) on campus. The
results are in!
One hundred and ninety
nine people filled out the
survey, of which, 177 were
students, 17 were faculty/staff,
and nine were both. One
hundred and eight said a
surcharge would not affect their
decision to use the A.T.M., 97
said they would make one to
two withdrawals, 72 said three
to four and 30 said they would
use it more than five times.
Thirty respondents said they
would not make a deposit, 132
said they would make 1 to 2,22
said they would deposit three to
four times a week, and 15 said
they would use it for deposits
more than five times a week.
Of title 199 surveys
answered, only six said they
would not use the A.T.M.
machine at all Some interesting
suggestions were made. One
student preferred Sovran Bank
and six others suggested using
Langley Federal Credit Unions'
A.T.M. Two students suggested
that a mailbox be set up in or
around Gators and that stamps
be available for sale.
Pin Points "Edutains"
the Student Body
By Stewart Fike
SGA President
The Pin Points Theatre
group performed for the Thomas
Nelson student body on Feb. 8
in Gator's Swampside. The
event was attended by
approximately 60 students,
faculty and staff members. If
you did not attend the
performance, then you missed
something special.
"1001 Black Inventions"
captivated the audience with
their unique portrayals of
Benjamin Banneker
(mathematician), Dr. Daniel Hale
Williams (Heart Surgery
pioneer) and George Washington
Carver (inventor). The
performance also featured a
"Human Computer" consisting
of the entire cast, that when
queried about black inventions,
responded with an output
consisting of humor, information
and descriptive movements.
The second part of the
performance was entitled "The
Twilight Zone", which depicted
life in America without black
inventions; it was hilarious! The
Twilight Zone segment revolved
around an untypical American
family that, because there were
no black inventions in the world,
was uneducated,
unsophisticated, bereft of
technology, and quite "nerdish."
Pin Points combination of
professionalism, talent and
humor, won over those in
attendance and the group was
rewarded with a standing
ovation; with calls for an encore.
Pin Points perform over
2,000 shows per year. The
ensemble tours all over the
United States, including Alaska.
The Pin Points ensemble was far
and away the best group to
work with that we have
experienced at Thomas Nelson
this year. Taqqee, Linda,
Michael, Cassandra and Jennifer
were very professional in their
business approach, as well as
their respective performances.
The following is a short bio of
each cast member:
Taqqee Khaaliq. the cast
leader, majored in music at the
University of the District of
Columbia. Taqqee is Pin Points'
musical director, vocal coach,
songwriter, in addition to being
a talented actor.
Linda Evans, a native of
D.C., is a long time (10 yrs.)
member of Pin Points. Linda is
the groups vocal coach.
Michael Morris, is the
newest member of Pin Points.
Michael holds a degree in
communications from the
University of Maryland, and he
is the most experienced actor in
the group.
Cassandra MccRee is also
graduate of the University of
Maryland. She holds a B.S.
degree in Radio, Television, and
Film. Cassandra takes pride in
being a positive black female
role model.
> Tennifer Tones is pursuing
an acting degree at the
Columbia. She studied under
Vantile Whitfield, alias
Motojicho at Rep Inc. She is
interested in learning and
teaching the black history that
the world has been deprived of
knowing.
was the project of Pamela R.
Jones, SGA Vice President. Pam
worked incessantly on the
scheduling, contracting and
promotion of the event. She did
a wonderful job, and should be
commended for her efforts.
Pam cares deeply about "black
history" and she takes pride in
being able to spread black
awareness to her fellow
The Student Government
Association is proud to have
provided high quality
entertainment such as Pin Points
to the student body of Thomas
Nelson. I sincerely hope that
the SGA asks Pin Points back
again, the student body deserves
entertainment of this caliber
every year.
HOURS HAVE
FOR FRIDAYS
ByRuthCoker
The primary goal of the
college's library is to provide the
best possible services to
students, faculty, staff and the
community. Increased
enrollments and increased
demands for services have
presented us with new
challenges and the need to
review operational strategies.
In order to improve our
services, we have changed the
hours of operation during the
spring semester. The change
will involved only reduction of
public service hours on Friday
afternoon--typically the lowest
use period of the week.
The change in hours have
enabled us to have materials
available and in the proper
location when they are needed.
The hours of operation are:
8 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Please make a note of the
revised schedule and mention
the hours to students and others
who use the college library.
Title.Alternative The Nelsonite, February 1991
Transcript February 1991 •Archives Volume 21, Issue 4 ATTENTION: All Students - and Faculty On Feb. 18,1991 the Science Club is sponsoring guest speaker/Dr. Chris Wozencraft, from the Smithsonian Institute. Dr. Wozencraft will speak on conservation in third world countries. The lecture and reception is free and open to the entire campus and will be in Room 100, Diggs Hall. The lecture will be from 3 to 4 p.m. and a wine and cheese reception will follow from 4 to 5:30 p.m. The A.T.M SURVEY RESULTS If you did not hear about it, there was a survey going around Thomas Nelson Community College about getting an A.T.M. (Automated Teller Machine) on campus. The results are in! One hundred and ninety nine people filled out the survey, of which, 177 were students, 17 were faculty/staff, and nine were both. One hundred and eight said a surcharge would not affect their decision to use the A.T.M., 97 said they would make one to two withdrawals, 72 said three to four and 30 said they would use it more than five times. Thirty respondents said they would not make a deposit, 132 said they would make 1 to 2,22 said they would deposit three to four times a week, and 15 said they would use it for deposits more than five times a week. Of title 199 surveys answered, only six said they would not use the A.T.M. machine at all Some interesting suggestions were made. One student preferred Sovran Bank and six others suggested using Langley Federal Credit Unions' A.T.M. Two students suggested that a mailbox be set up in or around Gators and that stamps be available for sale. Pin Points "Edutains" the Student Body By Stewart Fike SGA President The Pin Points Theatre group performed for the Thomas Nelson student body on Feb. 8 in Gator's Swampside. The event was attended by approximately 60 students, faculty and staff members. If you did not attend the performance, then you missed something special. "1001 Black Inventions" captivated the audience with their unique portrayals of Benjamin Banneker (mathematician), Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (Heart Surgery pioneer) and George Washington Carver (inventor). The performance also featured a "Human Computer" consisting of the entire cast, that when queried about black inventions, responded with an output consisting of humor, information and descriptive movements. The second part of the performance was entitled "The Twilight Zone", which depicted life in America without black inventions; it was hilarious! The Twilight Zone segment revolved around an untypical American family that, because there were no black inventions in the world, was uneducated, unsophisticated, bereft of technology, and quite "nerdish." Pin Points combination of professionalism, talent and humor, won over those in attendance and the group was rewarded with a standing ovation; with calls for an encore. Pin Points perform over 2,000 shows per year. The ensemble tours all over the United States, including Alaska. The Pin Points ensemble was far and away the best group to work with that we have experienced at Thomas Nelson this year. Taqqee, Linda, Michael, Cassandra and Jennifer were very professional in their business approach, as well as their respective performances. The following is a short bio of each cast member: Taqqee Khaaliq. the cast leader, majored in music at the University of the District of Columbia. Taqqee is Pin Points' musical director, vocal coach, songwriter, in addition to being a talented actor. Linda Evans, a native of D.C., is a long time (10 yrs.) member of Pin Points. Linda is the groups vocal coach. Michael Morris, is the newest member of Pin Points. Michael holds a degree in communications from the University of Maryland, and he is the most experienced actor in the group. Cassandra MccRee is also graduate of the University of Maryland. She holds a B.S. degree in Radio, Television, and Film. Cassandra takes pride in being a positive black female role model. > Tennifer Tones is pursuing an acting degree at the University of the District of Columbia. She studied under Vantile Whitfield, alias Motojicho at Rep Inc. She is interested in learning and teaching the black history that the world has been deprived of knowing. "1001 Black Inventions" was the project of Pamela R. Jones, SGA Vice President. Pam worked incessantly on the scheduling, contracting and promotion of the event. She did a wonderful job, and should be commended for her efforts. Pam cares deeply about "black history" and she takes pride in being able to spread black awareness to her fellow students. The Student Government Association is proud to have provided high quality entertainment such as Pin Points to the student body of Thomas Nelson. I sincerely hope that the SGA asks Pin Points back again, the student body deserves entertainment of this caliber every year. LIBRARY HOURS HAVE CHANGED FOR FRIDAYS ByRuthCoker The primary goal of the college's library is to provide the best possible services to students, faculty, staff and the community. Increased enrollments and increased demands for services have presented us with new challenges and the need to review operational strategies. In order to improve our services, we have changed the hours of operation during the spring semester. The change will involved only reduction of public service hours on Friday afternoon--typically the lowest use period of the week. The change in hours have enabled us to have materials available and in the proper location when they are needed. The hours of operation are: Monday - Thursday 8 a.m. - 10 p.m. Friday 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Please make a note of the revised schedule and mention the hours to students and others who use the college library. *


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GEO Shareholders Choose Special Dividend
The correctional-services provider will disburse two types of one-time payout, either a mix of cash and stock, or 100% stock.
Dec 29, 2012 at 11:45AM
Most GEO Group (NYSE:GEO) shareholders have elected to receive their special dividend in cash, the company announced in a press release. It was previously announced that the company would disburse a one-time payout amounting to $5.68, with recipients to choose whether they wished to receive it in a mix of common stock and cash, or entirely in common stock.
The vote was around 64% to 17% in favor of the former; 19% did not make a selection.
Those choosing to entirely receive paper as their payout will be given 0.2 shares of newly issued stock for every existing share they hold. The ones who opted for the other selection are to be given around $1.38 in cash and roughly 0.15 shares of stock for each existing share in their possession.
The special dividend will be paid on Dec. 31 and is payable to shareholders of record as of Dec. 12.
Eric has been writing about stocks and finance since the mid-1990s, when he lived in Prague, Czech Republic. Over the course of a varied career, he has also been a radio newscaster, an investment banker, and a bass player in a selection of rock and roll bands. A native New Yorker, he currently lives in Los Angeles.
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Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) serve as the interfaces between the analog natural world and the binary world of computer data. Due to this essential role, ADC circuits have been well studied over 40 years, and many problems associated with them have already been solved. However in recent years, a new species of ADCs has appeared, and since then attracted lots of attention. These are ultra-high-speed (often greater than 40GS/s) time-interleaved ADCs of low or medium resolution (around 6 to 8 bit) built in CMOS processes. Although such ADCs can be used in high-speed electronic measurement equipment and radar systems, the recent driving force behind them is next generation 100Gbps/400Gbps fiber optical transceivers. These transceivers take advantage of ultra-high-speed ADCs and digital-signal-processors (DSPs) to enable ultra-high data-rate communications in long-haul networks (city-to-city, transcontinental, and transoceanic fiber links), metro networks (fibers that connect enterprises in metropolitan areas), and data centers (fiber links within data center infrastructures). At such high sampling rate, massively time-interleaved successive-approximation ADC (SAR ADC) architecture has emerged as the dominant solution due to its excellent power efficiency. Several recent works has demonstrated success in achieving high sampling rate. However, the sampling network has become the bottleneck that limits the input bandwidth in these ADCs. It is apparent that conventional switch-based track-and-hold (T&H) circuit cannot satisfy the >20GHz bandwidth requirement. In addition, it is unclear what the optimal interleaving configuration is. Each state-of-the-art design adopts a different interleaving configuration – from straightforward conventional 1-rank interleaving to 2-rank hierarchical sampling or even 3 ranks. How to partition interleaving factors among different ranks has not yet been investigated. Furthermore, asynchronous SAR sub-ADCs are often used in these designs to push the sampling rate even further. The well-known sparkle-code issues caused by comparator meta-stability in asynchronous SARs can significantly increase the Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the transceivers unless power hungry error correction coding are implemented in the system. Although many works in the literature attempted to deal with the meta-stability in asynchronous SARs, the effectiveness of these approaches have not been fully demonstrated. In this thesis, I will first propose a new cascode-based T&H circuits to improve the ADC bandwidth beyond the limit of conventional switch-based T&H circuits. Then, a system design and optimization methodology of hierarchical time-interleaved sampling network is presented in the context of cascode T&H. To deal with sparkle-code issue in asynchronous SAR sub-ADCs, a new back-end meta-stability correction technique is employed. An extensive statistical analysis is provided to verify the correction algorithm can greatly reduce sparkle-code error-rates. To further demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed circuits and techniques, two prototype ADCs have been implemented. The first 7b 12.5GS/s hierarchically time-interleaved ADC in 65nm CMOS process demonstrates 29.4dB SNDR and >25GHz bandwidth. The later 6b 46GS/s ADC in 28nm CMOS employs asynchronous SAR sub-ADC design with back-end meta-stability correction. The measurement results show it achieves sparkle-code error free operation over 1e10 samples in addition to achieving >23GHz bandwidth and 25.2dB SNDR. The power consumption is 381mW from 1.05V/1.6V supplies, and the FOM is 0.56pJ/conversion-step.


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The whole world knows about Son Heung-min and how good he has been in the Premier League for Spurs, but a lot of people have said he has struggled to replicate that form for South Korea. Though he has failed to reach the same levels for Korea as he has for Spurs he remains Korea's biggest attacking threat.
Therefore he should be utilized as such, the ball should go to or around him as much as possible to make sure he is constantly involved in the game. Korea needs to keep him involved as much as they can to have a chance of winning games, he isn't a prolific striker by any means but he is by far the best chance of Korea doing something special.
Other countries have used players who are wing strikers for their club as the central striker for the national team. One of the best examples of this is how Wales use Gareth Bale compared to how he was used at both Tottenham and now at Real Madrid.
For Real Madrid he occupies a wide attack role, but for Wales, he is the main man and plays centre-forward, this helped Wales kick on and qualify for the Euros, and everyone knows what happened there with Wales reaching the Semi-Finals.
There is no reason why Son could not fulfil the same role for Korea, he has occasionally played there when Harry Kane has been injured so it's not like he can't do it. If played as the main striker I think he would give Korea a lot more threat up top.
Shin's tactics have made Kim Shin-wook the main focal point of the attack, this is extremely mind-boggling, Kim Shin-wook is a decent player but compared to Son he is average at best. Son should play where Shin-wook is.
With Son stuck out on the wing, it is easier for other teams to nullify the threat he possesses and also he has miles to run to get anywhere near the goal just as everyone seen in the game against Sweden. Shin would do well to note that it's best to have your main guys down the spine of the team.
He may like Shin-wook there because he is likely to play the number 9 position more naturally than Son. Shin-wook is as likely to float around as much, but Son floating around would be more useful than just pumping the ball at Shin-wook's head constantly. Son's movement could drag the defenders out of position and Korea's other attackers could bomb into space and pop the ball into the net.
If Shin persists with the same tactics that were employed in the first game then Korea hasn't got a hope, you cannot rely on playing defensive football when the defence is the weakest part of your team. We saw that against the Swedes, there were times when the Korean defence was at sixes and sevens.
Korea needs to move the ball quickly especially if they want to play counter-attacking football, with Son as the main attacker it has more chance to work by using his pace and skill than Shin-wook's height advantage.
In the end, if Shin has no balls to attack teams then Korea will go home with no points and no goals, and that is sad because Korea is nowhere near as bad as they suggested so far in that first match. A lot of your players wouldn't be playing at clubs all over Europe if they were that terrible, now is the time to show what Korea is made of so it's over to you Shin to show us all if you have massive balls or little tiny ones.